- Classic Literature, Fiction, Fiction in English, World War, 1939-1945
From the Middle East, to Moscow, to Hitler's death camps, the members of the Henry family face grave danger as they fight in the Second World War.
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Earnest, classical in form, epic and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Herman Wouk
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 1121
- Publisher
- Collins, HarperCollins Publishers, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606241601
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“A LIBERTY BOAT full of sleepy hung-over sailors came clanging alongside the U.S.S. Northampton, and a stocky captain in dress whites jumped out to the accommodation ladder.”
Herman Wouk was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
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